Baghdad security operation met with bombs

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Gee, who could have predicted this?

Baghdad - Insurgents met the quickening advance of Iraqi and US security forces into Baghdad with another deadly bomb on Friday, amid signs that Shi'a militiamen at least have decided to go to ground.

On the first day of weekly Muslim prayers since the Baghdad operation was launched, witnesses said US and Iraqi units were pushing into central city districts that have been the scene of recent sectarian carnage.

There was no sign of organised resistance, but one Iraqi unit was hit by a roadside bomb on the Mohammed al-Qasim highway, leaving one officer dead and a soldier wounded, a defence ministry official said.

A column of US armoured vehicles accompanied by Iraqi police headed into an administrative area near the Shorja market, where on Monday more than 70 people were killed by a devastating series of car bombs.

IOL

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1. welcome to the surge.

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2. You wait, just when they get feeling confident and bragging

about the wonderful results of the 'surge', BOOM!